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By JAMES W. DYKE JR.
Rawahannock Newt Contributing Writer
The report of the Governor’s Commission on Excellence in Education declared that Virginia has a good school system; that some of its schools are among the best in the country.
Unfortunately, as the report also points out, other Virginia schools can be described as marginal at best.
Unquestionably there are large and disturbing disparities among our schools in the quality and scope of the education they can offer our children: disparities in funding, curriculum, teaching, the use of technology, and - always the bottom line — student achievement.
Virginians are now strenuously pursuing excellence in education. Excellence presupposes that students in Southwest and Southside Virginia have “equal access” to the quality of education already enjoyed by students in more affluent and heavily populated regions of the state such as Northern Virginia.
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